If your micro-SaaS earns $500 MRR and your monthly costs are Medium Cost ($500-2K/mo) ($1250/mo), here's exactly how long it takes to recover your initial investment — and what happens if costs change.
Monthly Revenue
$500
Monthly Costs
$1,250
Break-Even
99 months
Total Investment
$123,750
You're a solo founder who spent approximately 60 hours building your product over 3 months. At a conservative rate of $60/hour for your time, your invested effort is worth ~$3,600. With $500 MRR in revenue and $1250/mo in costs (hosting, tools, API calls), your net profit is $-750/month. You'll recover your investment in 99 months.
Pre-launch
Building MVP. Costs: $1250. Revenue: $0. Focus: ship fast, validate with 3 pre-orders.
Early revenue
Revenue: $150/mo. Costs: $1250/mo. You're still investing monthly.
Growth
Revenue: $300/mo. Costs: $1250/mo. Net: $-950/mo.
Break-even
You've recovered your $3,600 investment. Every dollar from here is pure profit.
Profit
Cumulative profit: $-4500/mo. Consider reinvesting in growth.
Yes, $500 MRR is the first meaningful milestone. It requires just 18 customers at $29/month — achievable in 3-6 months.
Hosting (Vercel/Netlify: $0-20), domain ($10-15/year), database (Supabase: $0-25), email (Resend: $0-20), analytics (PostHog: $0-50), API calls, payment processing fees (2.9% + $0.30/transaction), automation tools (Zapier/Make: $20-100), CRM, customer support tools,.
Until you reach break-even, reinvest everything into growth (content, ads, tools). After break-even, take 30% as profit and reinvest 70%. The goal is reaching your freedom number — typically $4,000/month MRR.
Disclaimer: Break-even projections are illustrative.
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